Chapel Cottage, Llanishen, Chepstow NP16 6QT
Email info@chapelbooks.co.uk
________________________________________________________________
WORCESTERSHIRE
UK Customers please add postage @ £2.00
per book (£4.00 maximum)
Overseas customers will be charged Surface or Airmail as requested
[Dixon sisters] Three wills
Contemporary copies of the wills of Fanny Dixon (died 1848), Jane Dixon (died
1865) and Catherine Dixon (died in the early 1870s). They all lived at Stourbridge.
They had at least 2 brothers - Arthur and Joseph- and there was at least one
nephew, so the line may have survived. The three wills (ref 81/83) £20.00
post-free Not for export
Papers concerning Edward Lewes Parker of
Moseley
Edward died in 1903. This is a collection dating from then till about
1914. The collection includes legacy papers and short letters from the family.
All the papers are minor ones, upwards of 100 items in all. (ref 333/15)
£14.00 post-free Not for
export
Bredon Hill and its Villages
Rev R H Lloyd, 1980 7th ed. 120pp, several ills inc double-page centrefold
map. Includes chapters on Bricklehampton, Netherton, Kersoe, Ashton-under-Hill, Grafton,
Beckford, Conderton, Overbury, Kemerton, Westmancote, Bredon, Bredon's Norton, Eckington,
Gt & Little Comberton. A5 size, green card covers. Some ink underlining inside o/w VG.
(ref 6225) *£4.00
Bromsgrove Parish Church
F G Shepherd, 1958 3rd 'revised and enlarged' ed. Small 8vo, 67pp, 4
full-page photo-plates, all interior views. Very nice clean copy, VG. (ref
2188) £8.00
Kempsey Collection
Various contributors, 1984. 112pp, plenty of photo & drawings.
A series of 21 chapters on various aspects of Kempsey history including In Living
Memory; Kempsey Church; Kerswell Green Chapel; Kempsey Chapel;
Kempsey Gone But Not Quite Forgotten; Kempsey Still Standing; Kempsey's Oldest
Inhabitant. Very nice clean copy, F. (ref 3665) £8.50
[Kidderminster document] Deed re
Property in Blackwell Street
This 1914 deed on parchment concerns the conversion from a lease to an
ownership by the Council of 111,112 & 113 Blackwell Street. Manuscript on a
side-and-a-half approx 9"x11", signed by the Deputy Mayor and Town Clerk. (ref
4998) £5.00 post-free Not for
export
NB In the 1920s & 30s several properties in the Blackwell St/Coventry St area of Kidderminster were acquired piecemeal by the council for clearance/road widening. Ask for details of documents available (ref 4995 etc).
Some of the Antiquities of Moche Malverne
(Great Malvern)
James Nott, 1885. Oatmeal cloth on bevelled boards, 202pp inc index, 11pp of ills. VG copy
though the red lettering on the spine has worn away in places. (ref 0000) £30.00
[Malvern Wells] Plan of The Manse and Grounds
situate at Malvern Wells belonging to Rev F Ford
This undated but probably late 19th century plan shows the site to be on the
Hereford-Worcester turnpike road. The plan is on orange tracing paper, is quite flimsy and
thanks to rather clumsy folding has gained a few tears. Unfold it with great care.
(ref 754/272) £6.00 post-free
[Newland] Plan of intended highway diversion
at Newland Green
1892 plan on waxed linen shows the proposed stopping up of the road running
in front of the almshouses and church, and the creation of a new road across common land
parallel to the old one but further away from the almhouses and church. Scaled at
1:800. (ref W4) £10.00 post-free
[Orleton & surroundings] Down Along
Temeside
Richard Holding, 1963. 194pp, 46 photo ills, map eps. An account
of the life of an ordinary family in the early part of the 20th century. G in worn
but reasonably G d/w. (ref 2712) £14.00
Upton - Portrait of a Severnside Town
Pamela Hurle, 1988 2nd. Tall 8vo, 112pp inc index, 64 photo-ills
(mostly 2 to a page), many showing floods, 19 other ills (inc 4 maps) in the text. F
copy (ref 0000) £6.00
History of the Alice Ottley School, Worcester
Valentine Noake, 1952. 214pp inc index, 8 full-page photo-ills as
required. Fore-edges well spotted though this extends to just one or two leaves.
The spine of the d/w is sunned and worn and torn at top. A typically average
copy, so G in G d/w. (ref 2807) £12.00
[Worcs Chapels] Birmingham Archaeological
Society Transactions & Proceedings for the Year 1919
Birmingham & Midland Institute, 1922. Large 8vo in printed paper covers,
187pp of which pp23-114 consists of an article entitled 'The Parochial and Other Chapels
of the County of Worcester'. This article is accompanied by 7 photo plates. The article
following concerns Feckenham Forest. Contents clean but the paper covers are grubby and
very worn. (ref 8010) £10.00